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Maria Dinzeo, Courthouse News Service, August 14, 2014SAN FRANCISCO CN - Rules governing police Taser use do not gel with 9th Circuit requirements, a lawyer said Wednesday in the battery case by a man whose ordeal stemmed from a run in the park with his dogs. Gary Hesterberg is suing the United States for battery and false imprisonment after park ranger Sarah Cavallaro used her Taser on him in Rancho Corral de Tierra, a park near Hesterberg's home in Montara, Calif., that the Golden Gate National Recreation Area had just taken over. The 50-year-old had been jogging with his beagle and rat terrier but leashed the latter dog only after he was approached by Cavallaro, who allegedly did not identify herself and said that she would merely warn Hesterberg about his leash-law violation. Though Cavallaro said she would not issue Hesterberg a citation, she sought to detain Hesterberg when the fake name he gave along with his date of birth and address did not check out with dispatch. Cavallaro grabbed Hesterberg's arm the second time he turned to go and then pulled her Taser on him. She held him at Taser-point for four minutes while she called for backup. It was when the frustrated Hesterberg turned to leave a third time that Cavallaro shot him in the back. Hunter Bailey, deputy chief of law enforcement and policy with the National Park Service in Washington, D.C., testified Wednesday that Cavallero followed National Park Service policy when she used her Taser on Hesterberg. On cross-examination, Hesterberg's lawyer Michael Haddad said Bailey did not know what 9th Circuit standards applied to the legal use of a Taser in 2012. "You're in no position to give an opinion on whether the force used was legally justified by the 9th Circuit at the time of this incident," Haddad said. Bailey said, "I'm just here to testify that Ranger Cavallaro was following policy." Haddad tested that statement with a hypothetical. "If Mr. Hesterberg had been a 9-year-old girl instead of a 50-year-old man, would Ranger Cavallaro have been within policy to Taser her under the totality of the circumstances" he asked. Bailey answered "Sure, if she had evaluated other options." Haddad pointed to the 9th Circuit case Bryan v. MacPherson , which placed the Taser at a higher level of force.